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Embracing Collaboration and Social Perspective Taking Using Interactive Tabletops

Authors: Andri Ioannou, Vaso Constantinou

Published in: TechTrends | Issue 4/2018

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In a contemporary multicultural classroom in which students from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds learn together, it becomes necessary to embrace collaboration, social perspective-taking, and understanding of the other to help students comprehend classmates’ values and perspectives. Based on the already researched affordances of interactive tabletops in education, as well as promising empirical results from their limited application in multicultural settings, the authors present a case of practical and impactful technology research in a culturally diverse classroom. The study was conducted with 44 students as part of their formal, socio-emotional education course in a public school in Cyprus. The study presents evidence of perceived collaborative learning around the tabletop, as well as gains in social perspective-taking propensity from pre- to post-test, demonstrating a promising use of interactive tabletops and related technologies in the field of education.

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Title: Embracing Collaboration and Social Perspective Taking Using Interactive Tabletops
Authors: Andri Ioannou
Vaso Constantinou
Publication date: 12-04-2018
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: TechTrends / Issue 4/2018
Print ISSN: 8756-3894
Electronic ISSN: 1559-7075
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-018-0271-z

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